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10 Tips for a Clean Manuscript

June 16, 2016 //  by Mary Keeley//  26 Comments

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Writers have so much craft or technique to master. If you are a novelist, you’re consumed with things such as adding more tension or deepening the character development. If you write nonfiction, you’re concerned with organizing your …

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Your Bio: It’s All About You

July 10, 2013 //  by Mary Keeley//  44 Comments

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Compared to manuscript re-writes, growing your social media relationships, and working on your marketing plan for your proposal, writing your bio may seem like a perfunctory task that needs only cursory attention. Not so. It’s often the …

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Writers Who Begin as Bloggers: An Agent’s Perspective

April 17, 2013 //  by Mary Keeley//  102 Comments

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Recently I was asked what agents think of writers who begin as bloggers. I am always looking for new, fresh voices and do investigate blogs as part of that search. I know other agents who frequent blogs …

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Grammar Shrammer, It Matters More than Ever

November 23, 2012 //  by Mary Keeley//  25 Comments

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I’m taking a break this day after Thanksgiving to spend time with family, so here is an older post that bears repeating. Why? Because editorial departments at a number of publishing houses have been reduced and less …

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News from Conferences: Grammar Shrammar

May 27, 2011 //  by Mary Keeley//  28 Comments

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Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL

Ruth Goring, editor at the University of Chicago Press, led a workshop at the EPA Convention on changes in The Chicago Manual of Style: 16th Edition (CMS). Why is …

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What’s So Great About: Proofreading

April 19, 2011 //  by Mary Keeley//  17 Comments

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Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL

How many errors do you find, in this sentence; both puntuation, grammer, and spelling errors.

A lot of hard work goes into preparing a stellar proposal for submission. You need …

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